Matching Pairs Major branches of linguisticsOnline version students match linguistic branches to their definitions by Ljerka Bačurin 1 Computational Linguistics 2 Phonetics 3 Psycholinguistics 4 Morphology 5 Semantics 6 Syntax 7 Sociolinguistics 8 Historical Linguistics the study of the relation between language and society the study of word structure the study of linguistic meaning the study of language change the study of sentence structure the study of how humans acquire and use language the study of how speech sounds are produced and perceived the study of how computers can process human language